Worawora (O/R), Sept. 9, GNA – Dr. Paul Amankonah, the President of the Ghana Physiotherapy Association (GPA), has revealed that arthritis is more commonly found in divorced or separated women. He said the prevalence or incidence of arthritis had more than doubled over the last three decades. Dr.…
Ho, Sept. 6, GNA – The Worawora Government Hospital in the Biakoye District of the Oti region has been selected to host this year’s World Physiotherapy Day. The day, observed annually on September 8, raises awareness about the critical role of physical therapists and chronic pain therapies in…
Start planning your abstract submission The call for abstracts will open on 20 June 2022. Preliminary information about the call for abstracts has now been published on the World Physiotherapy Congress 2023 website. Find out about the presentation formats and the support that is available, including the mentoring programme. Several videos have…
This free webinar is only open to members of World Physiotherapy member organisations in the Africa region. Read more.
The Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH) has called on the public to regularly exercise to help prevent lifestyle-related illnesses and COVID-19. A Senior Physiotherapist at the hospital, Mr Amos Badu, said regular exercises had become more necessary in recent times due to lifestyle changes and its associated diseases. …
Happy World Physiotherapy Day! Kudos to all Physiotherapists in Ghana.
WCPT is privileged to inform the members of the Ghana Physiotherapy Association that two of its members, Alberta Amissah Rockson and Mercy Ama Awuah Agtuahene have helped last year (2019) in reviewing the Early Rehabilitation in Conflicts and Disasters Field Handbook and E-Learning training modules. The resource was…
A physical therapist from Ghana will be among the main speaker at the profession’s largest and most important international gathering, the WCPT Congress 2019, to be held in next year in Geneva on 10th -13th MAY. The Ghanaian physical therapist taking part is profiled in the attached sheet. He will…